My precious little snowflake has to use a laundromat! Oh noes!

[violiavampyr]

About an hour before I left today a woman call up upset that S hasn't called her back. Understandable, but S barely gets to her v/m or email before she gets another call or walk in. This afternoon there was a for her team. Ok, so I start filtering calls to v/ms and answering what i can. Which isn't much.
So this woman calls, starts in on a tirade about how no-ones called her back about this urgent matter. It takes me a couple to get it Out of her what exactly the issue is. Apparently her kid signed a lease for a unit without a washer or dryer. This woman was upset that her little snowflake had to go to a laundromat to wash her clothes .
She kept on and on, refusing to politely sit on hold while I found out who else could listen to her Bitc- ah- talk, so clickity click. on to hold she went anyway.

[Oniontears]

I don't THINK that's too common in my area of Aus - I mean, I've seen laundromats around but never used one. It would be a bit weird for me to move into a place without laundry facilities, but I wouldn't lose my shiz over it. Especially on behalf of someone else... /headdesk

[MoonCat]

Awwww, po' po' widdle babeee....haz to go to the mean old laundromat! So do I , and I have to take the bus. Who do I complain to?

[Slayer]

Hopefully it wasn't due to the lease getting switched up on her kid. As long as the kid knew and accepted that there wouldn't be any in the building, then so what. She can figure it out.

[Jester]

The kid, who is presumably an adult and of legal age to sign legal contracts like, say, leases, signed the fucking lease to the place that didn't have a washer/dryer unit.

Whose fault, precisely, might that be? Hmmmm....I wonder.....

[Draper Mel]

I have very little sympathy. I spent 6 years in an apartment without laundry facilities. After I had to get rid of my car, I took the bus, summer and winter, to the laundromat.

The trick is to buy enough underwear so you only have to go every two weeks.

[the lawsmeister]

I don't THINK that's too common in my area of Aus - I mean, I've seen laundromats around but never used one. It would be a bit weird for me to move into a place without laundry facilities, but I wouldn't lose my shiz over it. Especially on behalf of someone else... /headdesk

From memory all landlords are required to supply in Aus is a working stove.
Supplied dryers (and to a lesser extent) are becoming more common in units (apartments for non-Aussies :-) ) these days but are not a requirement

[violiavampyr]

Yeah, these "units" are actually duplexes (most of them). Whole neighborhood blocks that houses mostly college students. Most of the ones I've seen have hook ups, but not an actual washer/dryer. Ex. My boyfriend previously leased from the very same company I work for and he had had to move his washer/dryer into the duplex. Now, it's possible that the girl misread the unit information. It's hard to believe that many of these students are going to a top university (if I'm to believe local dogma) since they apparently fail at reading comprehension.

[manybellsdown]

I have very little sympathy. I spent 6 years in an apartment without laundry facilities. After I had to get rid of my car, I took the bus, summer and winter, to the laundromat.

The trick is to buy enough underwear so you only have to go every two weeks.

When we last moved, my biggest criteria was "I want laundry hookups". So tired of fighting over the last dryer and scrounging for quarters. Now I've got a laundry closet upstairs next to the bedroom and I'm SO spoiled.

[bhskittykatt]

In our town, most places don't furnish a washer and dryer. My unit doesn't even have a hookup. If we sprung for a 2 bdrm in our complex, we'd get the hookup, but we'd need to supply the washer/dryers ourselves. At least with the cheap rents, I wouldn't expect a unit to come with a washer/dryer around here.

[Jester]

It's hard to believe that many of these students are going to a top university (if I'm to believe local dogma) since they apparently fail at reading comprehension.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Excuse me....I'll be with you as soon as I'm done laughing....

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Sorry, that just struck me as hilarious. Because I went to a major university, one with a lot of really bright and intelligent students. However, a whole hell of a lot of the students there were blithering idiots. Not necessarily in class (though many were in there as well), but just in life.

A perfect example that correlates to this thread is the story I have told for years about when I first got to the dorms my freshman year. When it came time to do laundry, I did the logical thing: I gathered up my laundry and went to the laundry room to do it. And when I walked in, I saw several other male students standing there, their laundry in hand, staring at the laundry machines as if they were alien spacecraft. Because to these guys, they basically were. Apparently their mothers had coddled them and done their laundry, unlike my mom who basically insisted that all of us take a turn doing the family laundry from about the age of 10 or 12 on.

But even if you had never done laundry, wouldn't it make sense to ask someone (say your mother) who had how to do it? Rather than stand there and look like an idiot? And have no idea what you're doing?

Yes, that would make sense. And these people were university students. And clearly, they had neither the sense nor the intelligence to approach this very mundane, very common task in either a sensible or intelligent way.

So, yeah...university students, being smart? Please!

[Lyse]

I remember once having to demonstrate how to use a washer to a guy in "A" school. He had gotten though high school and Navy basic training without learning.

[cashierbex]

I have been doing my own laundry since I was 9. We have a washer and dryer here (shared with idiots), but I prefer to go to a laundrymat. A lot quicker.

[dalesys]

They forgot to get that critical text at the bookstore...
It's yellow and black...
Lupo, help us out here, you're the expert...


Oh yeah, "Laundry For Dummies"!

[AccountingDrone]

I remember once having to demonstrate how to use a washer to a guy in "A" school. He had gotten though high school and Navy basic training without learning.

I guarantee he knew how to wash floors after basic and A school ...

I did my own laundry from the time I was about 10, I started learning to cook at 8 [mainly because it was interesting] and was emancipated and working a full time job and going to high school at 16, and worked 2 jobs in college.

I didn't have an in building washer/dryer from 1977 until 1983, and didn't have my own in unit washer/dryer until 1987. [I will never live anywhere I do not have my own washer/dryer. I will do without a refrigerator first.]